Retaining Walls By Stonemakers Artisans™

[teamempowerment]

Yes we stain it with Acrylic colors. This is less costly than real rock in that it it save time and labor.

[psalm1604]

how do you stain the "stones" ? with paint or...??

[teamempowerment]

yes It is because of the minimal labor and the time it takes to install..

you buy yourself much more time..

[lazyboyinc]

So is this method cheaper than natural rock?

[ForbiddenArchaeology]

I call bull on 7:00 !

[ForbiddenArchaeology]

@ForbiddenArchaeology Oh nevermind....it was a before and after LOL! I take it back

[frank0067]

i have a foundation wall outside the house that's choppy and has a few holes, so i need to resurface and repair the chunks that fell off..

what type of cement mix do i need for this project.. someone advised me for a mix with stones in it..but that didn't do well at all. didn't stick to the wall or anything.

[grazzmaster]

That's a REAL painful sunburn at 5:02.  Nice work! (the walls, not the sunburn)

[smighelschi]

Super

[expiredskata]

looks good..just like shotcrete ,, im a real stone lover too,,, however manmade thin stone is winning over on selection and use etc etc.. each to their own;!! nice alternative..

[marshallslabz]

Is that a flowable fill mix.

[bubbabouyi]

are you located in new england

[teamempowerment]

@bubbabouyi Yes we are... We just won the New England Architecture Concrete Award.

[kkhhoona]

i have been doing stone FX for 4 yrs in the UK, The MIX (Mud)... whats in the MIX, this is the essential question???????????  Why not colour the initial mix to get you going?

[teamempowerment]

@kkhhoona The reason we dont put integral color is because we get different effects with a polymer laden concrete finish on the rock.

We then get a covalent bond with the emulsifying color agent that we apply which react with striations and great color effects.

[Jrm4cam]

@teamempowerment Would you be able to use PCL mortar on an interior fireplace for this? Maby go 1/2-3/4 of an inch and then cut in the joints?  I'm still trying to figure out how you can get multiple colors from acid staining, although being a bricklayer I don't have much experience with staining concrete. I think it looks incredible!

[pdunnman]

Looks too fake for me...if your going through all those steps you mind as well use real stone! I like the outside the box thinking though.

[teamempowerment]

@pdunnman Ive done hundreds of rock wall in my experience and i love the look. The problem I have is that a lot of customers just couldnt afford the real rock walls and I couldnt seem to charge enough. it took a long time and lot of labor cost to install the rock. if you do it then God bless you. This is a real rock alternative and looks a whole lot better and is stronger than block. 87 percent of all the contractors use block and we all know that block is nothing more than molded concrete.

[KAOSKTRL]

workability of  the cement can be extended through the us of

Salts of lignosulfate acids - Salts of hydroxycarboxylic acids - Polysaccharides and their derivatives - Hydroxylated polymers

[sooshyboy]

AWESOME!!!!!!

[MrDiyap]

gooood

[Naturallyanthony]

what kind of mix is that?

[cbeboz]

excellent job

[Arteolike]

How do you make the granite look in the rocks? You know the black and white spotted ones.

[teamempowerment]

@Arteolike Sorry it took so long to reply. We use a method called layering using black and white while we layer the colors achiving the granite look. We also use under layer earth tone colors to achieve different colors of granite.

[wojtusmaximus]

robie tez z kamieniami ale takiej technii z betonem to niewidzialem , chyba zaczne tez takie cos  robic , nice job ....

[apauln]

what is the time frame you have to work on the walls while it's still workable? the wall, where you were interviewing you workers, was a small wall and it had to take some time to get it into a wall shape let alone carving the rocks, shaping, coloring, all while workabe... i've been a concrete mixer truck driver for 18yrs and closest i've seen to this is shot-crete been used to make pools and they were on it as soon as it's shot out of the sprayer. excellent work.

[deliacroom]

AMAZING! These guys can totally create art out of just concrete! These retaining walls are stunning and beautiful!

[teamempowerment]

Wow!! its hard to believe that there were no forms used.